Jar-holder



H. P. RYKKEN. .IAR'HOLDER. APPLICATION FILED 0c.4. 1x920.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

4 Patented Nov.il5,192i.

Application filed December 4:, 1920. Serial No. 428,329.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that HAROLD P. RYKKEN, a citizen of the United States, residing at Port Orchard, in the county of Kitsap and State of Washington, has invented new and useful Improvements in Jar-Holders, of which the following is a specification.

My present invention has reference to a holding device for jars, and is especially designed for that class of fruit jar known as the Mason jar, wherein the cap is threadedly connected to the mouth of the 3 In both sealing and unsealing screw cap jars, the great difiiculty is in holding the jar against turning. This is rendered more difficult in canning for the reason that the jar is heated by the contents thereof, and it may be considered the primary object of this invention toproduce a holder having its body portion of a flexible strap and its ends hingedly secured to pivotally connected crossed handles which may be grasped by the single hand of the operator and when forced toward each other will compress the strap so that the latter will tightly engage the jar to hold the same to permit of the screwing or the unscrewing of the cap on the jar.

A further object is the production of a fruit jar holder in which the body member is in the nature of a flexible strap which has its ends hingedly or pivotally connected to bail-shaped crossed handles that are pivotally secured together, one of said handles being of a greater length than the other, whereby the last mentioned handle may be swung thereover so that the ends of the bands may be brought over each other to cause the strap to tightly engage with the jar, the hand engaging portions of the said handles being also of a construction so that injury to the hand of the operator will not be imparted on the grasping thereof.

A further object is the production of a fruit jar holder in which the crossed handles are connected to reinforced ends of a flexible strap in a manner which permits of the separation of the handle and strap, whereby the device be folded into a compact package for storage or shipment.

The foregoing, and other objects which will appear as the nature of the invention is better understood, may be accomplished by a construction, combination and operative assemblage of parts, such as is disclosed by the drawings which accompany and which form part of this application.

In the drawings Figure l is a view illustrating the operation of the improvement.

Flg. 2 is a perspective view of the im provement.

Fig. 3 is a substantially central longitudinal sectional view therethrough.

In the drawings a fruit jar engaged by the improvement is designated by the numeral 1.

The improvement comprises a body memher in the nature of a comparatively wide flexible strap 2. The strap has at its ends, on its outer face metallic plates 3, which are preferably riveted to the said strap, and

the said plates at the ends thereof and at their outer corners are formed with out standing lugs 3 that have openings therethrough which aline.

The handle members, for distinction, are indicated by the numerals 5 and 6. Each of the handles is preferably constructed from a single piece of metal and is substantially bail or U-shaped in plan. The parallel arms of the handle members cross each other and. are connected together by a pivot pin 7 that passes therethrough. Pivots 8 pass through the arms of the respective handles and through the lugs on the respective reinforcing plates 3, whereby the handles are hingedly or pivotally connected to the strap. The pivots are removable so that the device can be folded into a compact bundle when not required for use or when the same is being transported. The handle 5 is of a less length than the handle 6, the arms of the handle 6 overlying the arms of the handle 5, and the outer or connecting element for each of the handles is widened and is rounded inwardly, as at 9. The rounded portions are contacted by the hand of the operator, and the handles, presenting no sharpened surfaces will not inflict injury to the operator. By having the handle 6 of a larger size than the handle 5, it will be apparent that the ends of the strap may be brought to lapping engagement when the handles are forced toward each other, and thus the device is rendered adjustable for varying sizes of fruit jars. In this connection, it should be stated that different sized holders may be provided for different sized jars, but a holder of a determined size may be brought to properly away from each other and engage with jars which are nearly of the same size.

The arms of the handles are rounded out-' wa'rdly toward the connecting portlonthereof, or the portions which are engaged by the hand of the operator which serves to widen this portion of the said handles and provides for the convenient grasping there-' of by the operator.

It is, of course, obvious ing the handles away from ends of the strap will be 7 handle.

description of the improvement will be deemed necessary.

Having thus described the invention, what I claim, is z- In a jar holder, a flexible strap, reinforc ing plates on the ends thereof having outstanding alining lugs, crossed bail-shaped handles said relnforcing plates, and one of said handles being of a greater length than the other In testimo y whereof I aflix my signature. s

HAROLD P. RYKKEN.

pivotally connected together and hinged respectively to the pairs of lugs on 

